social approach concepts map

Anotações:

• Obeying orders from an authority figure

1. Milgram's Agency Theory

   Anotações:

   • Key terms  Agentic State: acting as agent of authority figure, conscience suppressed, possible moral strain, defers responsibility to authority figure. Autonomous state: acting of own free will, as individual, accepting responsibility, active conscience.
   • Apllication to Nazis
2. Studies
   1. Milgram

      Anotações:

      • administering increasing powerful shocks. 65% to 450V
   2. Hofling

      Anotações:

      • Hofling's study with nurses and the drug astroten. ordered to give overdose. 95% did.
   3. Meeus and Raaijmakers

      Anotações:

      • psychological violence instead of physical. 15 increasingly distressing remarks. 92% made all 15.

Anotações:

• prejudice: preconceived opinion based on external factor such as age race religion etc

1. Social identity Theory

   Anotações:

   • Tajfel. social categorisation : in-group/out-group. social identification: accepting group norms social comparison: putting out group down to boost in group self esteem.
2. Studies
   1. Sherif

      Anotações:

      • boys in a summer camp. ingroup favouritism. friction reduced by superordinate goals.
   2. Jane elliot (optional)

      Anotações:

      • Blue eyes brown eyes. class teacher.
3. discrimination

   Anotações:

   • treating someone differently because of prejudice What's the difference? Prejudice = thought Discrimination = action

1. sampling

   Anotações:

   • random: everyone equal chance stratified: classifying the population into groups and then taking samples proportional to the size they are within the target population. opportunity: whoever is around at the time volunteer: as suggests.
2. open and closed

   Anotações:

   • open: in depth, increases validity, harder to analyse as produces qualatitative closed: yes/no etc, reduces validity, narrow artificial. produces quantitative.
   1. Qualitative and quantitative

      Anotações:

      • qu\antitative: numbers Qualitative: words